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A dish best served cold

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Likeaskyscraper · 20/07/2021 22:32

Hi, long time reader, started reading after a miscarriage and then got sucked into AIBU and chat etc.. never posted before though.

After being cheated on for most of last year and him finally admitting it this year, I have been reading relationship threads daily, it's weirdly helped! I'm finally building myself back up, making changes and putting my wheels in motion for 'take down' 😊
So I thought I would ask did you get "revenge" on someone who betrayed you?
I know not everyone gets revenge, thinks about it and even thinks its immature, wrong, waste of time etc... That's fine but please No judgement, if it's not for you that's fine, just read and run!

Im talking anything, no matter how tiny/silly!

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user1471538283 · 22/07/2021 17:07

I heard of one brilliant one! My friend collects rare and expensive vinyl and there was an advert for loads of it at an address. He went and the lady was selling her cheating husbands entire collection for pennies.

My friend tried to give her the proper value but she refused. It was pennies or nothing!

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Bengal12 · 22/07/2021 16:57

Living well is the best revenge but some old fashioned petty revenge works beautifully as a quick pick me up in the immediate aftermath. When I discovered my ex was cheating on me I gave all his Star Wars memorabilia to the Cats Protection charity shop. We are talking hundreds of things, some signed. Best bit? He hates cats!😂😂

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Likeaskyscraper · 22/07/2021 15:29

@Bluntness100

Isn’t the best revenge op to leave him?

It is and it feels amazing. Doesn't stop me having a little fun and enjoying a few petty things whilst we split though!
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Bluntness100 · 22/07/2021 14:52

Isn’t the best revenge op to leave him?

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FayCarew · 22/07/2021 14:50

@Likeaskyscraper, if he is obsessive about things like music CDs or DVDs, swap the contents. randomly so that he'll have to open each case to find the right CD/DVD.

Not illegal.

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Likeaskyscraper · 22/07/2021 14:43

@Bluntness100

Op, you’ve left him? The relationship is over?

Almost, getting my "ducks in a row" as they say on here.
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Likeaskyscraper · 22/07/2021 14:42

@VeganVeal

I always say salad is a dish best served cold

I do enjoy a good salad dish
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Bluntness100 · 22/07/2021 14:37

Op, you’ve left him? The relationship is over?

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Likeaskyscraper · 22/07/2021 14:35

@momager1

that being said. Living well is the best revenge. My exhusband is living in a horrible little dump...smoking weed and unemployed. I met a lovely man. He raised my daughter as his own .. He has supported all my dreams...lifted me up when i was falling down.. OUR daughters children know him as their papa.. My ex... well. he has missed out on alot of things with my daughter...her wedding...her two wonderful kids. Been remarried 18 years now. To the best man on the planet. THAT is MY revenge.

That's lovely, sounds like you've had a much better life without him x
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VeganVeal · 22/07/2021 11:22

I always say salad is a dish best served cold

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oreo2020 · 22/07/2021 09:38

Wasn't intentionally revenge, but...

Dumped my repeatedly deceitful ex last year. Started seeing someone else. Ex got relentless in trying to get me back.. and after some months I accepted him back (a mistake as I can never trust him). Never stopped seeing the other guy.. the other guy claimed he wanted a relationship but then hesitated while I dreamt he would ask me to be his and I could break of with my boyfriend for good. Never happened.
Still with my boyfriend (wrong) and still in touch with the other guy (more recently, just platonically).

I know it's all wrong and I need to cut of both and I cannot seem to so it's a mess.

The best revenge is moving on and a life lived well.

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NSA2103 · 22/07/2021 08:16

My ex-wife cheated on me twice. After separation she committed benefit fraud, the evidence of which she revealed to me in financial disclosure.
After much thought I reported it to the authorities, and committed myself to move on, forget, and be happy. But not forgive.

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OneMamaAndHerGirl · 22/07/2021 07:00

@CrouchEndTiger12

My ex did all that for me. Humiliated themselves after he cheated and I didn't need need do anything.

I have to say, weedkiller in aftershave, damaging property, laxatives in food and drink...are these men worth a criminal record?!

That's the way I look at it. They aren't worth it.

OP you sound very childish and cheerleader laughing at all these stories and quoting and commenting on every one. Invest in some therapy.

Stop being a miserable cow. Leave the OP alone.
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GiantHaystacks2021 · 22/07/2021 06:55

@CrouchEndTiger12

My ex did all that for me. Humiliated themselves after he cheated and I didn't need need do anything.

I have to say, weedkiller in aftershave, damaging property, laxatives in food and drink...are these men worth a criminal record?!

That's the way I look at it. They aren't worth it.

OP you sound very childish and cheerleader laughing at all these stories and quoting and commenting on every one. Invest in some therapy.

Oh don't be such a worthy.
Always one.
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LegoCaltrops · 22/07/2021 06:50

@KalvinPhillipsManBun I agree.

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Maltybiscuit · 22/07/2021 06:42

When I moved out of a cheating exes house I changed joint passwords on things like sky, the broadband, gas and electricity account etc, I changed them to James (not his real name) is a cheating cunt, tiny dick, oh and also put some king prawns in the curtain linings in the bedroom! Grin

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CrouchEndTiger12 · 22/07/2021 06:32

Also I'd never want to give the guy the satisfaction of knowing he got to me that badly.

I left and that was that and cut all contact. It was an old boyfriend and we had no children.

Years later I looked him up and when I saw what became of him with the one he left me for, it was most satisfying to see him having humiliated himself all on his own. Grin

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CrouchEndTiger12 · 22/07/2021 06:24

@RookieRoo

CrouchEndTiger12 your name is literally used as a username on a show for people to post anonymous petty revenge reviews 😂 (unless you have a different origin) I thought you would live for the petty revenge.

Nope I'd just seen the episode and couldn't think of anything else to use as a username. Everything else I wanted to use was taken.

I also happen to know the difference between fiction and reality.

The thing is you're only harming yourselves. Never lose face or give anyone anything to say. Pride and dignity is the best way.

In ironing cunt into shirts and weed killer in aftershave and damaging property, you're just giving them the opportunity to say they're glad they cheated on you as you're clearly such a bitch anyway.

In trying to harm someone else you're just making yourselves look bad.
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KalvinPhillipsManBun · 22/07/2021 02:56

@CrouchEndTiger12

My ex did all that for me. Humiliated themselves after he cheated and I didn't need need do anything.

I have to say, weedkiller in aftershave, damaging property, laxatives in food and drink...are these men worth a criminal record?!

That's the way I look at it. They aren't worth it.

OP you sound very childish and cheerleader laughing at all these stories and quoting and commenting on every one. Invest in some therapy.

I think it's a journalist.
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Mintjulia · 22/07/2021 02:42

Not exactly revenge, but he's come back three times now to try to restart the relationship and been refused.

It doesn't feel exhilarating like revenge, I'm just puzzled that he thinks I would be that stupid.

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momager1 · 22/07/2021 02:39

that being said. Living well is the best revenge. My exhusband is living in a horrible little dump...smoking weed and unemployed. I met a lovely man. He raised my daughter as his own .. He has supported all my dreams...lifted me up when i was falling down.. OUR daughters children know him as their papa.. My ex... well. he has missed out on alot of things with my daughter...her wedding...her two wonderful kids. Been remarried 18 years now. To the best man on the planet. THAT is MY revenge.

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momager1 · 22/07/2021 02:32

my ex was a horrible man . He was abusive in many ways...sexual..financially (even though i was the one making the money) emotionally... and finally right before I left him... he got physical. But I am no shrinking violet... i reached down inside myself and got my revenge one night. Right before i packed up and left. 3 am.. he had been out with a friend and came home. INSISTED i got up and made them some food. I already knew this was going to happen. Here in Canada MANY years ago there was a dog food called Gaines Burgers. They looked like hamburgers. Our german shephard LOVED them. I fried them up a couple...put them on buns with lettuce and tomato. the two drunk arses ate them hahahahahahaha. Sorry. NOT SORRY. I told him when he was being an arse during the divorce. LOL

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groovergirl · 22/07/2021 02:19

I seriously regret not ironing creases into the back of his shirts that spelt the word CUNT.

This sounds like a technique worth learning! Grin

Here's one that goes back awhile: My friend's grandfather was probably too drunk to cheat, but he did like to piss away the family income down the pub and storm home in a foul and violent temper. His DW, noting that he would try to sober up in the morning with buttered toast, would sprinkle arsenic on the butter. Old bastard would be sick for days. We don't know how she got the arsenic; maybe the local chemist was sympathetic!

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MolG5276bvfg · 22/07/2021 01:31

My cheating eh married the ow. A friend went to their wedding and told me in confidence he’d been found shagging another ow on the night of the wedding party and asked me not to say anything. I told EVERYONE making sure it got back to his new wife, the original OW. Lol.

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TheSkatesOfCoachBombay · 22/07/2021 00:54

Am ex cheated on me, I found out by his phone going off in the night and a message from a woman popping up. I said nothing, but before I left in the morning emptied his sugar tin and replaced it with salt as I left before he woke up for work. He would have 4 sugars in his morning tea.

I blocked him on social media and WhatsApp when I got in my car that morning to drive off.

The satisfaction of knowing he had a salty tea that morning left me giggling to myself all morning.

Never heard off him again, wasn't interested in, but yeah salty tea 😂

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